A mesh network is a network of wireless routers that employ multi-hop routing and can be used to provide network access for mobile clients. Mobile mesh networks can be deployed rapidly to provide an alternate communication infrastructure for...

Gene set testing has become a critical tool for interpreting the results of high-throughput genomic experiments. Despite the development of robust statistical methods and extensive gene set collections, however, the results from gene set testing...

The edge of the Internet is increasingly wireless. Enterprises large and small, homeowners, and even whole cities have deployed Wi-Fi networks for their users, and many users never need to--or never bother to--use the wired network. With the advent...

The integration of visual and auditory events is thought to require a joint representation of visual and auditory space in a common reference frame. We investigated the coding of visual and auditory space in the lateral and medial intraparietal...

Sensor networks are used in many realtime applications for collecting information from monitored environments and objects, such as moving vehicle tracking, battlefield reconnaissance, and habitat monitoring. Sensor networks are often deployed in...

Successfully navigating our social world requires the ability to understand the facial expressions of others. Indeed, facial expressions provide information about the emotions and intentions of others. While some expressions provide clear...

We expect wireless body-area networks of pervasive wearable devices will enable in situ health monitoring, personal assistance, entertainment personalization, and home automation. As these devices become ubiquitous, we also expect them to...

Recent years have witnessed a new class of monitoring applications that need to continuously collect information from remote data sources. Those data sources, such as web click-streams, stock quotes, and sensor data, are often characterized as...

Although genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and other high-throughput initiatives have led to an information explosion in human genetics and genetic epidemiology, the mapping from genotype to phenotype remains challenging as most of the...

Nutrients play fundamental roles in biological systems, affecting plant growth and quality, community structure, and species interactions. Although the effects of nutrients on primary and secondary production have been well documented, their...

The recognition of foreign peptides by MHC (Major Histocompatibility Complex) proteins is a critical step in the immune response mounted by higher vertebrates against pathogens. MHC proteins have many allelic variants, each recognizing different...

Despite years of study, the mechanisms by which cells protrude their leading edge during cell motility are still highly controversial. Two candidates for mediating this actin-based process are the Arp2/3 complex and formin family proteins. In order...

Molecularly imprinted polymers are artificial networks designed to have many selective binding sites that are suitable for various applications. In order to develop more of these systems, the fabrication and characterization of imprinted polymers...

Computer security has come a long way since the days of the first Internet worm. With the spreading and commercialization of the Internet, the stakes have gotten higher. Viruses existed and spread before most computers were online, but as global...